Salih Muslim Muhammad

Salih Muslim Muhammad (1951-) was Co-Chairman of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) of Syria with Asya Abdullah from 2010.

Biography
Salih Muslim Muhammad was born in 1951 in Kobani, Aleppo Governorate, Syria to a family of Sunni Kurds. Encouraged by Mustafa Barzani's struggle for Kurdish rights in Iraq, Muhammad joined Kurdish parties such as the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria and later the Democratic Union Party. In 2010, he became its co-chairman alongside Asya Abdullah, and the party led the de facto autonomous state of Rojava in northern Syria after 2011 during the Syrian Civil War. In 2013, Salih's son Shervan Muhammad was killed in Tell Abyad by al-Qaeda militants during the war, and thousands attended his funeral. Muhammad continued to lead the PYD during the war, having agreements with both the Syrian Arab Republic government and the Free Syrian Army rebels.